Review Request: Workaround for the hang (freeze) when opening VLC's file dialog under KDE...

[Thiago Macieira]

Em sexta-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2011, às 18:17:13, Thiago Macieira escreveu:
> I thought about that. My work on no-thread-until-pipes-close had already 
> documented this as a behaviour change.

Think about it anyway: if the child process dies but the grandchild one 
doesn't, it will die when the current application exits.

There is another drawback: the child process would be a Zombie until all its 
children died too.

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